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e. A. GUNTHER. DEVICE FOR DEPOSITING TORPEDOES INSNOW BANKS.

Patented Apr.3, 1883.

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GEORGE A. GUNTHER, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

DEVICE FOR DEPOSITING TORPEDOES IN SNOW-BANKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,039, dated April 3, 1883. Application filed January 4, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. GUNTHER, of-Brooklyn,in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Device for Depositing Torpedoes in Snow-Banks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved device for depositing or placing torpedoes or explosive cartridges in snow-banks, which torpedoes or cartridges are to be exploded for the purpose of loosening or removing the snow.

The invention consists in a boom, pole, or other analogous device attached to the front end of a locomotive or car, which boom or pole is forced into a bank of snow and carries a torpedo orotherexplosive cartridge into the bank and holds it into the same until it is exploded.

The invention further consists in parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which a locomotive is shown provided with my improved device for depositing a torpedo in a snow-bank.

A long boom or pole, A, is suitably held by proper devices to the front end of a locomotive, B, or any other car, in such a manner that it projects from the front end of the same. The pole is suitably braced and stiffened by means of braces O. A pulley, D, is held on the end of the pole, and around the said pulley an endless rope, E, passes, which extends to the engine-cab or to the car. A torpedo or explosive cartridge, F, is secured in some suitable manner to the rope E, and to the said torpedo or cartridge electric conductors Gare attached, which are connected with an electric generator on the locomotive or car.

The boom or pole A is forced into a snowbank, H, the desired distance, and then the torpedo is drawn from the car or locomotive to the end of the boom by means of the rope E. The torpedo can then be exploded while at the end of the boom by closing the circuit of the electric wires or by means of a friction-fuse.

By releasing the rope E the torpedo can be permitted to drop down within the snow-bank; or the boom can be partly withdrawn, so that the explosion of the cartridge will not injure the pole. If the cartridge explodes, it loosens the snow and throws the same frointhe track, thus facilitating the removal of the remaining part of the snow or the entire bank.

In place of the rope E, other suitable devices can be used to transport the torpedo to the end of the pole.

The pole can be made of any desired length, and can be made of one piece, or of a series of telescopic pieces which can be gradually forced into the bank; or it can be replaced by lazytongs, or other equivalents of a pole or boom.

The boom, pole, or other device can easily be removed from the locomotive or car when not in use.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a car or locomotive, of adevice for forcing a torpedo or explosive cartridge into a snow-bank and depositing it in the same, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with a car or locomotive, of a device projecting from the front end of the same for forcing a torpedo or cartridge into a snow-bank and depositing it in the same, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with a car or locomotive, of a pole or boom projecting from the front end of the same for forcing a torpedo or explosive cartridge into a snow-bank and depositing it in the same, substaptially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination, with a car orlocomotive, of a pole or boom projecting from the same, and of devices for carrying a torpedo or explosive cartridge to the end of the pole, sub-v stantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination, with a car or locomotive, of a pole or boom A, projecting from the tridge F, and devices for firing the cartridge, same, the pulley D, and the rope E, substansubstantially as herein shown and described, tially as herein shown and described, and for and for the purpose set forth.

the purpose set forth. GEO. A. GUNTHER.

6. The combination, with a car or loeomc Witnesses:

tive, of the pole or boom A, projecting from the same, the pulley D, the rope E, the ear- 0. SEDGWICK.

OSCAR F. GUNZ, 

